OLD AND YOUNG PLAYERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 3

OLD AND YOUNG PLAYERS.

Whatever may be said by way of criticism of our cricket, the fact remains that it is becoming increasingly ! popular as a game to watch. Everyj where this season tie attendance at all j matches at all worth watching is very I great. An astonishilng thing about the game at present is the number of *!old stagers"—men approaching forty, or i even in the early forties—who ar© still I playing in first-class matches a*d doing ; extremely well both as batsmen and bowlers. This has led enthusiasts for i the game to ask whether the young ' : nlayers are being given their proper chance—whether they are not being ,k©t>t out of the fronf rank by these older players? (A similar line of criti- ■ oism. by tlie wav, is being adopted witl'•fteard to our first-"lass lawn tenni«." 5 On the other hand, there are tl:ose v/h<

argue that cricket no longer attracts the youngsters &s it did. The ganns, they say, is _ too slow for them, and they are deserting it for lawn tennis, at which they get much more exercise in a shorter time.—Home paper.